Best Ever Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe makes delicious, soft, and chewy cookies. I have yet to find a snickerdoodle recipe that beats it.
Soft, chewy, and perfectly spiced with cinnamon. This snickerdoodle cookie recipe is an old family favorite that will be your new family favorite once you try them.
My Grandpa Sorency was always my #1 fan of my baking, even when I was learning. Everything I made came out to be the best thing ever! He especially loved German Chocolate Cake and exclaimed that mine was the Best Ever German Chocolate Cake he had ever had {which this recipe is still in the top recipes viewed on my blog}.
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While he never really shared any of his recipes, I only remember that he loved making cookies.
He was known for his Snickerdoodle Cookies; when he made them, I’ll be honest: he didn’t share much. Occasionally, he’d share one if you dropped by at the right time. Really I think he only shared because my grandma would give him the look of death if he didn’t offer us one.
We love these cookies because they are soft, chewy, and irresistible. If you want a classic snickerdoodle recipe I am so happy to share this one with you.
Ingredients
- Soft shortening
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Flour
- Cream of tartar
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Cinnamon and sugar for the coating
My grandma passed away in 2022, before then she loved doing family history with my kids and going over the boys coin collection. They would spend hours together, which is some of their best memories with her.
When she came over, she always brought the kids a treat, whether is was these Snickerdoodle Cookies, or a $2 bill or Peeps, she never came over empty handed.
It was funny my grandpa’s cookies were always soft. When my grandma made these, she baked them a minute or two long, and the kids immediately gave her that feedback.
I was so embarrassed, but my grandma agreed, and we all laughed. The next day, Madden {my Cookie Monster} asked to make them, and I couldn’t say no. We baked it following the recipe card that was my grandpa’s which my grandma gave the kids, super special, right?!
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This Best Ever Snickerdoodle Cookie recipe is the best because nothing beats my grandpa’s recipes unless they’re my grandma’s {lol}.
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Best Ever Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup soft shortening
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 3/4 cup flour
- 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Sugar Topping
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl using a hand mixer beat together shortening, sugar and eggs until well combined. If you want you can just add this all into your stand mixer and beat until combined.
- In a medium mixing bowl sift together flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt.
- Add the flour mixture into the sugar mixture and beat until combined.
- Cover and chill dough for 1 hour.
- Preheat over to 400 degrees.
- In a small mixing bowl combine and mix together the 2 tablespoons of sugar with the 2 teaspoons of cinnamon. Set aside.
- Using a cookie dough scooper, scoop dough and roll into balls the size of walnuts. Roll the cookie dough balls into sugar and cinnamon mixture.
- Place dough about 2-inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet. Baking until lightly browned but still soft – do not over bake, you will have a crispy cookie.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, I always stop at 8 minutes and never go over that. My grandpa let them bake a little longer.
- Baker’s Note: These cookies will puff up at first then flatten out with crinkled tops.
My daughter’s favorite cookies in the world are snickerdoodles and I have to confess I’ve never been able to make them all that well, I’m going to try these out on her this week!
These sound amazing! YUMMY!
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Big fan of soft cookies here, so these are perfect!
My granny used to bake this for me too! Thank you for this!
Wow these cookies look amazingly delicious! I can’t wait to try them!
These Snickerdoodle Cookies look so fun and tasty! I can’t wait to try them!
My kids would love these! I can’t wait to try them out!
These Snickerdoodle Cookies are SO GOOD!! My kids loved them! I can’t wait to make them again and again!
Yum! My favorite! Can’t wait to make these snickerdoodle cookies next weekend!
Thank you for sharing your sweet story about your grandpa. And for understanding the brave effort your grandma made to make the leap from her grief to make his cookies for your family. Tender stories. I love snickerdoodles, and I agree with you these are the best ever.
This was super well-recieved by my kids! Will definitely make them again 😉
My kids are going to love these when I make them!
I totally forgot to post here! We made this exact cookie recipe at our new years celebration party at work and it was a great hit! Cheers and thanks for posting it, kind regards from everyone at Tvangssalg B. in Norway.